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" We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. "

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" My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. "

" I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. "

" You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. "

" At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. "

" The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. "

" It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. "

" Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people. "

" I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. "

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "

" And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "

" Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art. "

" He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. "

" Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. "

" Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. "

" Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. "

" Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. "

" Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. "

" I remember everything but forgive anyway. "

" I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. "

" The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "

" I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. "

" I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly. "

" I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore. "

" It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. "

" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "

" Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. "